What Is ConvertPLUS ARE?
ConvertPLUS ARE (Automated Reverse Engineering) is a full- featured, CAM software solution designed to complement ScanCAD’s family of scanner-based reverse engineering products.
This product takes the Gerber and ASCII component data from the scanning process and creates rich ODB++ and FATF outputs that include the component pin numbering and netlist information needed for CAD upload and schematic generation.
Feature Highlights
- Accepts IPC-D 356 files, Centroid files (from ScanPLACE) and silkscreen layers to create Reverse engineering component information.
- Outputs include: ODB++, FATF, ASCII, IPC-D 356 Netlist. Special macro specific to convert Gerber files to ScanCADready files for import.
- HyperNETLIST Extraction can generate Netlist information for even the largest of designs in a matter of minutes.
- Import Wizard that loads ALL industry formats (Gerber, Drill, Mill, HPGL, DXF, and more).
- Intelligent Data Transfer with ODB++, ODB++ (X), and IPC- 2581.
- Database Navigator provides quick and easy access to all necessary information without the need for menus or toolbars.
Features
IPC-2581 import/export
ODB++ import/export
Modification
Redline mark-up
Macro/scripting
Optimization
Quoting information
Design rule checking
Netlist Import, Export and Compare
Assembly Reverse Engineering
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Assembly Reverse Engineering
- Integrated Footprint Library: Control “master footprints, device creation and association and pin numbering
- Parts: Identify, delete, query, BOM report
- Fiducials: Identify and report
- Analysis: Device spacing, centroid, comparison, BOM compare
- BOM Import: Finalize reverse engineering with part numbers, device descriptions, values, and tolerance data
- Export: FATF, ODB++, ASCII, IPC-D-356 Netlist
Analysis Features
- Browse Errors Directly from Navigator
- Graphical Find Duplicates
- Graphical Layer Compare (Compare Any Two Layers Quickly and Accurately, Browse Differences Through the Navigator)
- Design Information Queries (Quickly check Min. Air Gap, Min. Trace Width, Number of Conductive Layers, Number of Drill Hits, and More)
- DRC w/AutoCorrect (Track-to Track, Track-to Pad, Pad-to- Pad, Min. Track, Min. Pad, Board Edge, and More)
- Graphical Netlist Comparision (Shorts, Opens, No Copper for Net, No External Net for Copper. Errors are Highlighted Using Navigator)
- Pin-Point Netlist Errors (Quickly Locates Short and Open Errors from Netlist Comparison Results and Highlights the Location)
Advanced Features
- Database Navigator (Quick Access to Layers, Apertures, Netlists)
- Layer Sets (Define Layer Sets for Blind & Buried Vias and MCM Stack-Up)
- Interactive Data Grouping (Group Objects Together for Fast and Easy Editing)
- HyperNETLIST Extraction (Supports SMT, Thru-Hole, Blind & Buried, and MCM)
- Layer Scaling
- Merge Multiple PCB Files)
- Automatic Draw-to-Flash Conversion (Convert All Layers at Once, Use Mask Layer as Guide) (the “automatic” is only in a higher level product)
- Polygon Over/Undersize
The following are trademarks of the indicated companies: Gerber, Ucamco N.V.; ScanCAD™, ConvertPLUS™ and ConvertPLUS ARE™ are trademarks of ScanCAD International, Inc. *All specifications and designs subject to change without notice.*
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